Another pop-punk band leaps into the new decade while syphoning off a familiar sound that acts like what Green Day and Blink 182 rolled with. Ironically, those same bands have matured their sounds and stepped away from the pop-punk sound. I Call Fives have a huge void to fill with the fading genre. With Warped Tour increasingly becoming more of a scearmo event, it will be difficult for Fives to stand on their own anywhere.

Many of the songs follow the style of pop-punk with high tuned guitar riffs and whiny vocals. On the track “Stuck In ‘03,” Fives pay homage to their genre by shouting: “I was listening to Take This To Your Grave/So Long Astoria and Nothing Gold Can Stay/You said I'm filling my head with nonsense and I'm throwing my life away.” However, most of the lyrical content, like most pop-punk songs, is about being love sick about a girl. The teen angst filled heartbreak is another cliché that is best left alone.

I Call Fives is an echo of the early 2000s rather than a fresh noise in the present. Die hard pop-punk listeners will be pleased with the pre-adolescence sound. Other listeners will scoff and be thankful that they grew out of this sound. Even the pop-punk gods knew when their time was up when Mark Hoppus of Blink 182 simply stated in their music, “I guess this is growing up.”